How do I fix eclipse's hang on 66% while building workspace?

Question

I am using Linux Mint Debian

Eclipse 3.5.2

Anytime I save it gets stuck on 66%

Need to know how to diagnose or fix the issue

Solution

Check your workspace log for errors:

less workspace/.metadata/.log

Or tail while saving:

tail -f workspace/.metadata/.log

Comments

[Seth Hikari]

This was a great idea, though no new logs came up while saving

[sreimer]

try starting eclipse from the command line and see if it outputs any errors to the terminal

[Seth Hikari]

No errors were reported and I tried using -clean command, but did not help

[Seth Hikari]

Removed build automatically fixed the issue.

[Seth Hikari]

problem was the time it took to build a large shared library